ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,514, issued on May 19, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electrode manufacturing method and electrode manufacturing system used in method" was invented by Seo Jun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyojin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Su Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyuk Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an electrode includes the steps of (a) laminating an active material layer on the surface of the current collector; and (b) removing a portion of the active material layer by irradiating a laser beam on the surface of...